Archive for the 'Christian' Category

I should have promoted this sooner. Never mind – there’s still time for South Australian writers to attend the first Word Writers Fair in Adelaide tomorrow, 21st August 2010. (Just make sure you vote in the federal elections first!) This special event is free. All you have to do is rock up at Tabor Adelaide, [...]

Released just this week, Marrying Ameera is the latest YA novel from award winning South Australian author Rosanne Hawke. Whatever you read this year, put this novel on your MUST READ list. Ameera, 17 years old, is the daughter of an Australian mother – a Christian – and a Pakistani father who is a devout [...]

My supervising lecturer recently gave me this book to read. She thought it could be of some use in the writing of my children’s novel which is also set in Nepal. Himalayan Adventures written by Penny Reeve is a charming little book (of only 96 pages) which deals with various aspects of life in Nepal. [...]

Mary Cundy is an amazing woman. I have never met her, but after reading her book I feel as if I know her very well. I read this book as background research for my Master of Arts in Creative Writing thesis novel and exegesis essay. Although it did not have a direct bearing on my [...]

Writing a novel: a writer’s journal part 22 What I am reading: “Braver than the Gurkhas” by Sikhar I chose to read this little know book as background reading for the writing of my novel for children. Like my novel, this book is set in Nepal. It is based on true events but is written [...]